Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13
aTbeeIins Rs9ister
THE LABOR WORLD.
OUR USUAL wBEELY RESUME or INDUS
TRIAL D0INGS
From All Over the Countryside Sight Hour Asr-
hGOn-Co-Opsrahys Enterprises Start
ing Up-0hsr Interesting News
specinL co,rssnonderes Of he Ssadag Rsqaer.

gather the wheat out OF the weekly mOuu
tain of commercial. manufacturing, indus
trial, financial, railroad and general news
that is piled up in the ~thirty-eight States
and Great Britain, and grind the wheat
into flour, and bake the flour into palatable
intellectual cakes for the business, manu-
featuring and industrial interests OF the
United States each week is the purpose OF
this summary.
The general business and industrial con-
ditiouS are good. No stringency Is appa-
rent. Currency is abundant. Money Is
cheap, collections are fair and the country
is making all the money 1t Is spending.
For every $50 worth OF business lone IN
thirty-six OF the leading cities in lSS5,
S23 worth WAS done in 1SS6 and S25.5Oin
lsS7. The upward tendency in prices has
been arrested, hut we are threatened with
an normous demand in April and May
which may possibly crowd prices up 4 peg
higher. While there is no certain harm
in this. it involves y certain danger, such
~ checking enterprises, because OF the
greater cost of production.
Crop prospects continue good. The in
crease in last weeks business over the pre-
vious weeks business was 20 per cent.
There is a heavy reduction of the fuan-
cial reserves in Eastern cities. The New
York Banks have $4,000, 600 less gold and
the country generally has So, 600, 600 more.
Eastern capital Is being thrown into Chi
caso. It. Paul, Kansas City and other
Western business centres.
Cur January export trade was 81 against
So for January last year, and for seven
months, SO rs against $tl for the same
seven months of the previous fiscal year.
Railroad interests declare 5000 clerks
will DE needed to keep the Interstate Com
merce Law accounts with the railroad
companies controlling 100000 miles OF
ROAD and they say that the appropriation
of 500. 90 IS r~idiculouSly inadequate.
Iron, lumber, petroleum, and general mer-
chaudiSc shippers are all anXiOusly await
ing the adjustment Of freight rates.
Business is gaining in Volume daily and
prices are very firm. A general advance
is improbable from present indications.
Labor difficulties are decreasing. Employ
ers are combining more earnestly. Labor
leaders are advising more conservatism
Clothing manufacturers have large stocks.
Hosiery manufacturers are oyerSold. Boot
and Shoe manufacturers are busy all
through Massachusetts and Maine except
1000 On strike.
The lumber business is expanding. Iron
and steel mills and blast furnaces are over
crowded and British iron and steel are
coming in in cargo lots at New York and
Philadelphia. Rails enough are turned
out every day To lay sixty miles OF road
per day or six miles for every working
hour.
The iron and steel imports will average
this wear not less than 3, 500 tons per day
in spite Of high tariffs aud extraordinary
capacity.
Lumber, dry gOOds and boots and shoes
are in heavy demand at Boston. Iron,
steel and dry goods are crowding capacity
at Philadelphia. Pittsburgh mills are over
crowded and over twenty manufacturing
sites have been been purchased OF looked
at" Tor manufacturing purposes. Business
ct all kinds, especially lumber, iron and
iron ore are picking up ut Cleveland.
BrgldSluiS and provisions and lumber are
in better demand at Chicago, and a heavy
distribution Is assured. The volume of
business IL the Ohio Valley cities is steadily
increasing Southwark. All sorts OF pro-
duets are in very active demand in Kansas
CITY for the South West. The North West
Is more slowly opening up.
The Massachusetts, boot and shoe m
ployers are struggling earnestly TO secure
n%ou-uniOn labor in their mills, and new
workmen are coming in slowly, hat have
10 be guarded by the police from the sta
ton To- the h-tel, and from the hotel to
the workshops. The demand tor boots and
shoes in all Eastern markets Is steadily I'M
proving and a very active person is pre-
dirted by manufacturers and inbberS. One
Boston house this week shipped $500 cases
To q single iObbing firm. All the factories
making hrogans and pillow shoes are run
ming nu full time. The factories an Maine
and New Hampshire are crowded with or
ders tor work. The iorwardingS for the
week from Boston wcse 5l,2O5 eases, and
since January ~, i27,&lO cases, against
1881 clSce i>r the same time last year.
The country is o~vcrSupplied with raw
skInS. Tanners are nearly everywhere
well supplied, and can delay purchasing
for a good while, and therefore lower prices
are predicted.
A fresh crop Of 60 operative enterprises
arc visible. In Buffalo two cooperative
groceries and one c!g:r factory have been
started. Sixty men are making good WAGES
at line cooperative stove foundry ia SOm-
Crsrt. Mass. Ia New York city the cigar
makers Will buy q large factory aud eX-
pended 5000 in buying stock and appli-
ancrS: fifty sSIlliul eigarmakerS will be
employed, stock will I've purchased, and
the manufacturers will buy the entire
plantation crop uI tobacco, as is the Gus
tom ul the industry. Three cooperative
enterprises are under way in st. Louis, and
Que OF two new concerns are projected ia
Milwaukee, where several enterprises ART
already doing we'll The Knights co-Opc-
ratiye mines in the West have paid well.
The cooperative glass factory in Baltimore
mas asSumed practical shape and is incor-
pOratod.
The eight hour agitation is beginning to
take shape in several Western cities and
towns. The st. Louis carpenters have led
oil with a demand for , cents per hour nd.
vance for nine nouns per day. The brick
layers have asked ID cents and eight hours
per day. The Stove-molders want higher
wages, hut expect to he locked out. The
It. Louis Trades and Labor Assembly will
~beOrganized pm May l..
The Labor bull before the New York Leg
IsIature proposes an income tax of | per
cent ON incomes Of from s., 900 to s., 600; =
per cent on from $1,000 to SO 900; ! per
cent on from SlO,OO to S5O, Zoo; 20 per
rent on from so. 600 to 500, 100. and 50
per cent on 500, 900 and upward.
The London Labor leaders are taking a
novel way Of pushing forward labor or